The cover of Loraine Petre’s The History of the Norfolk Regiment has a coloured image of the Colours of the 2nd Battalion; the Regimental Colour on the right and the King’s Colour on the left. The details on the two flags are obscure but the five battle honour scrolls that can be seen in the lower left corner of the Regimental Colour tell us that at least one honour has been added. This would be balanced by another honour on the other side of St George’s cross. After the Boer War the regiment added two more battle honours: PAARDEBERG and SOUTH AFRICA 1900 - 02. They were added to the Colours of both battalions even though the 1st Battalion did not serve in the Boer War.
The King’s Colour appears to have only a circular title in gold in the centre of the Union flag, and there is no sign of a royal crown above the circle. Inside is a Roman numeral II. Battle honours were confined to the Regimental Colour only, until 1919. The accumulation of so many battle honours in WW1 meant that a selection of 10 of them was added to the King’s Colour.
